Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 383
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT for 21 counties in North Carolina; 29 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2000, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Alamance County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Warren County, NC, Brunswick County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Sussex | 37 min |
| May 27, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax, Warren | 41 min |
| May 27, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 38 min |
| May 27, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Vance | 38 min |
| May 27, 11:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 42 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 550 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 32 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chowan and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe and 40 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Carteret, Caswell, Chatham and 32 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bland, Buchanan, Carroll, Dickenson, Floyd, Giles and 16 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.